Greetings my friend,

This picture has captured me in so many ways and I would love to share with you and see if you might discover some of them as well.

First I would like you to join me in  reading  this picture.  See the attitudes, the postures, the peace, the creativity through expression of likeness, the relaxation, the love, the joy leading to the mind-heart connection.

Here is my granddaughter who is now 7 just living in the moment, expressing her true self, enjoying the feeling of being complete in herself. Notice what the horse does..... he feels her connection and joins in with her.

Neither are feeling limitations, even notice where she has the lead rope just thrown over her shoulder, no limitations for either of them, they both are free and comfortable to live in the moment to the fullest. Notice they obviously are not bond up by external circumstances, they could care less, they are living the Now time to the fullest.

 Hello glad to have you stop by.  I have a personal story that I would like to share with you.
Disclaimer : this is my story, not intended to diagnose or suggest you go this direction in caring for your body.
My words are like I  talk and my mind runs faster than my words sometimes so know its just real!
I also do not believe in labeling things on or about my body that I do not want so please read between the lines.

For a couple  years I have had a light brown spot  like on my scalp that was flat to my head and not overly big but I noticed it.  In the past I have used Clove and Frankincense with great success with spots.  But I had another skin irritation on my face and I was using  Helichrysum daily with success so  while I was applying this oil to my face I would apply it on that spot as well. 

Life had taken my time more than usual and I neglected my regular routine for my skin care.  Then one day I notice the spot on my scalp had extended with a few black spots which it had not had before.  Then with each passing day it continued on this rapid growth up out and all around with black spots increasing very quickly.  I noticed!!!

My hair dresser said get that looked at it has black spots and has ragged edges which are not favorable signs.

I then contacted my personal coach who I have had for 3 years. Love her, everybody needs a coach.   I shared about this spot as well as some really disgusting dreams I had  for months which would give me the thought that my body was screaming out on toxic overload.  She confirmed my thoughts on toxic overload but her next words were a game changer for me.
She said.. Is it  time to give yourself permission to stop the suffering! You have been used all your life and is it  time to take yourself back.  

WOW! Yes that is what had been happening. Being abused for several years in my childhood you do feel like you don't have any say. Then when you get old enough to have a say it usually will come out in anger as your still not really sure you don't deserved to be treated like that  because you have been programmed the rug mat for so long. Then  if you do stand up for yourself you wonder will this ruin my change for being loved.  Its a twisted cycle which I have untwisted but that's another story in itself.

So I started on this new journey.  First I did get mad. Then quickly I turned that and wrote down all the negative things I didn't like about my body and self and on another page I wrote all the opposite to all the negative.  Then I burnt the negative paper. I started writing down that I was thankful that I loved myself and my body and I spoke and wrote to myself all the wonderful things about it. And how thankful I was for my clear skin and etc.   Then I sent love to people that were bothering me... This was another game changer.. and when I did that THINGS started to happen.  By the way I still do this exercise.

I then decided to go to a Dr. that knew me well and I trusted. He suggested that I get it off quickly as ragged edges and black spots inside of it was not a good sign. Hummm I thought! In the meantime I had been listening to Dr. Joe Dispenza, author of Your are the Placebo.  WHOA what a book and talk about a story, his personal story is AMAZING!! So his book and the book Love, Medicine and Miracles which is about people who have healed themselves from diseases first by loving themselves and pretty much giving their selves permission  to stop the internal emotional suffering. All  this was going over and over in my mind. So in  my mind I am thinking,  I can do this. I believe the body heeds to what your thinking and feeling. So I needed to change something's... So I did just that....

I started doing some things for myself setting some healthy boundaries along with daily journaling  about the love I have for myself, how happy and thankful for that. Now I really didn't feel the love at first  for myself but the more I wrote it and said it I started to feel it then act it. ( that is KEY)  Send love to the people that were bothering me and each day the internal  pressure started to lift. I was taking my life back!!  I also decided to use several of my favorite products from Nature Sunshine quality line which included:  Black ointment,  clove, frankincense, lavender, helichrysum essential oils and the one I used most and still do is... Silver Shield.  I used the other products  when I felt the need  ( I believe in letting the body tell you what it needs if you know how to listen to it )  but regularly I use the Silver Shield and I give a lot of credit to that little tube.

The pictures above, well sorry I tried to take them myself and I tried to put them in the right order but as you see I have them backwards.  The far right picture was March 6th, the middle picture was March 10th and the first picture was taken March 27th.   All gone now!! Hurray!! 

Any questions please feel free to contact me. cindy@cindycappel.com

Happy Health to you my friend,
Cindy

Loving thyself will empower you to be you!

               
Have you had one of those days you hit bottom. Your boat sank and there is a cloud over you and ropes wrapped around and around you to a numb feeling.  That was my yesterday.  It was a come to meeting with Cindy thyself.

You go and you go and you go and you go and then your give out!!! Why do we allow ourselves to get that way. The realization is because we don't LOVE ourselves and then to follow that up we don't RESPECT ourselves and throw the
SELF WORTH and we throw our hands up with what is the use. We are living from a state of no empowerment.

So what do you do, cry,go ahead and feel it, empty that out and then sit down and have a talk with yourself.  This is interesting I want you to get what I am about to say here... We or atleast I have talked about I am so overwhelmed, I am so busy, I am so sad, I feel used etc.  Well here is the deal when we talk about those things the body says oh you do OK I need to get busy to make sure that happens for you. The body doesn't say she  really doesn't mean that she is feeling down a at the moment, it takes it for the gospel truth.  So that being said lets process on....

 We first need to go back to the source that fills all and that is LOVE!  LOVE for ourselves. When we have LOVE for ourselves we will become empowered and set healthy boundaries, we will feel respect for ourselves, our self worth will increase and we will start to stand up for ourselves in a positive healthy way.  We will understand what is serving us, what is loving us, what is deserving of our time.  If it is not, we need to quit as that is what is wearing us out and convincing us we don't have a leg in the game of life here. 

Your thinking..  I can't quit my family. Of course not but you can set some boundaries for yourself with them and WOW is that a hard one to do when we have been conditioned the other way.  You know if someone doesn't do it no one can learn anything from it. No thank you or thank you for asking but that doesn't work for me to do right at this time. It doesn't mean never just not right now. If  we give and we are already give out then  resentment sets in and you lose your joy. 


Since I had lost joy I needed a change. I sit down and made out a blueprint for my body ... What I wanted each part to look like and how was I going to help it feel better.   Lots of water, some juice fasting, lots of greens, etc. as my body has felt the bloat of life and it took it on in reality too. We truly are what we think and eat.  Set some boundaries for my work sch. even though I work for myself, it has its own challenges. First hrs of the morning is MINE to walk, read, mediate, journal all things that is going to fuel myself first and then my day as I will be fully charged ready to go.

Very similar to a phone when we have a few bars left we are looking for a charge somewhere. So lets keep our bars full by being fully charged from the beginning of the day.  Feel free to recharge during the day its your body if you don't plug it in no one else is going too.  Here are some ways I fuel and refuel... I LOVE LOVE writing my thankful list.

I am thankful for  my heart that pumps blood to give me life, my nostril the passage way for the air that fills my lungs etc.  you get the picture.  Makes you feel good writing it and makes the body feel good as well. You know the body FEELS... it feels pain, pleasure, joy, love, protected.  This is the one body God gave us and loving it and yourself is the greatest gift you can give yourself first and it will then flow sincerely to others....

Sending bunches of LOVE to you.
I am so thankful you took your precious time to read this blog, I hope it helped you in some way to make your a day alittle better....

Affirmations do they really work? Yes!  I have been doing them for some years now and there is definitely a shifting takes place in life. Why? They are powerful statements that stimulate your mind and bring new dimension to your life.

Some call it self talk, others refer to it as auto suggestion. The key is that you understand the meaning behind what your doing. Napoleon Hill in his book Think and Grow Rich explains it this way.... that affirmation is the most direct route of communication between the conscious mind where thought takes place and the subconscious mind which serves as the seat of habitual behavior.

Want to change your results in life?  Decide what you want and write a statement that you are already in possession of it. Write it several times a day speak it out with feeling and gratitude.  Expect to see the desire of what you want to come to pass. Something is already coming to pass in your life, it might as well be something that you really want.

Below I have given you an affirmation that I am starting March 1st for 30 days. I am going to write it down 5 times a day and speak it out throughout the day. Most likely before I eat, shop or feel like I would like to eat.  Notice I said "feel like", isn't that the issue, we do things by feelings not by our conscious logical mind what is really best for us.

Anything we impress upon our mind with feeling and gratitude will eventual take form in our lives.  I have done affirmations in the  pass but with the wrong motivate and with out  feeling and gratitude attached to them. When you write and speak the words out loud imagine what it feels like to have it in your possession already. Be the captain of your ship.

Use this affirmation or choose something that pertains to your life. Whatever it is just start, start today and follow along as I explore the shifting as I share my discoveries in the next 30 days.

The best to you always,
Cindy

Hello I have been asked to write about my  
                 PURPOSE  ***   VISION **** GOAL  journey ....So here it is, I hope it helps!

PURPOSE:  Discovering it by connecting the dots backwards

Early on I was using my  purpose, vision and goals unconsciously and I am going to guess you have been as well.  Read my story and see if you haven't experienced the same. 

In my teens I LOVED  riding and showing horses, I would sit and look at the horse journals and picture myself doing what I saw.  Getting close to  HS graduation I told my father I wanted to go to Boulder CO to their Equine program so I could manage barns and ride all the time. Sounded like a good plan to me.  My father said he was not paying for me to go out of state to school and I sure wasn't taken my horse. He said I could  go to business school in MO. and get a job that paid money.   I allowed my dream of years to be stolen and I chose  not to go to school so I went to work instead. 

When in  my twenties I purchased a BBQ restaurant that I was a waitress at. WHY? I watched the owner get nice things and I was at a spot in my life that I did not have what I wanted.  So I thought this must be the key, I need to buy this restaurant, so I did! No experience of owning anything, no college,  no cooking experience, just a burning desire for things to be different in my life. I remember my mother saying why are you buying a restaurant you don't know HOW to cook. I learned quickly!! LOL

In one year I doubled the profits, extended the building, I was on a roll,  why, because  I was  LOVING  what I was doing. What was I actually doing? Now that I know to connect the dots backwards for understanding,  I was providing  quality service with quality product for the people who came in to eat. For those who worked for me I created  an environment that encouraged them to value their selves and others. 

In the meantime I got into alternative medicine. LOVED it. What was I doing? Connecting the dots backwards I was providing quality service with quality products that encouraged people to help themselves and feel better.  

My life when connected backwards has always been wrapped around providing quality services  to people for the better of themselves and others. The common denominator starting revealing itself. I LOVE being around and encouraging people in some fashion.  I challenge you to do the same. Connect the dots backwards so your forward has more purposeful meaning. 

VISION: 

I had been a visionary and didn't know it. Most people just want you to get on with life. They say  dreams and visions are for children and don't come true anyway, right, have you heard that? That is from someone who has not ever done it and is obviously not living their dream. 

Remember Purpose leads to Vision, Vision leads to the Goal. 

 My purpose is providing quality service through teaching that encourages growth for the mind body and spirit. My  VISION is how to express my purpose. 

I personally do that through teaching  classes, coaching, speaking engagements etc.
.Write your vision as an inspiring story of what it looks like for your purpose to come to life. Ask yourself what things would I do, where, with whom, why, giving you what feeling and emotion?    
Vision off course:  I use to could never say NO Thank You to anything, I thought I had to do it all and I was on a spiritual treadmill that wore out.  When I came to the truth that God was going to love me just the same even when I wasn't everywhere for everybody my whole life changed, but not overnight.  I had been programmed to serve and  serve and serve some more  and he will be so pleased with me that everything will just work out. That did not happen for me.  That's is another story!  

Vision on course:

At this point on my journey I have concentrated  focus due to my daily self development of gratitude, studying and training.  My vision is clear because I write and say it everyday! I was not always this committed, I would do it and not and that is the results that I was getting and I didn't like that. So I got committed and in the process I grew to love myself, know who I am and  where I am going and it feels so good!

GOALS:  
Now your ready to set your goals with an awareness of meaning and purpose.
Your goals help you to fulfill your vision.  I have set a BIG BIG goal that i have no idea how it will ever come to pass. Then I set goals that help me to achieve my vision. 
Set goals on Career/Wealth * Relationships * Spirituality * Physical ( health , fitness, wellness) 

Goal cards:  I write a goal on a card and carry it with me, put up in my office, on a mirror to greet me daily.  Then when it comes to pass I put it a goal holding pottery vase I personal made. 

You can't get to the top of the ladder unless you leave the bottom. 

I hope you have found this helpful. If you have any questions or comments leave them and I will do my best to provide you with my suggestions. 

Keep loving yourself, 
Cindy

Lets get to the grit of why we do what we do. Shall we..

The self image you have  today , was created by someone else, your parents,the environment you grew up in and other people around you,friends,teachers,relatives etc. This self image formation began  before your  birth.  As youngsters we are like a sponges absorbing everything we hear and experience, as if it was the gospel truth, no matter if it was or not true. Our conscious mind of reasoning and logic and truth had not been developed yet so we take on what we see, hear and are exposed to as if it was written for us to wear and carry our entire life. As its been said we will grow physcially but we may be stuck somewhere back in our younger years emotionally. This is what  your self-image is made of. 
You might be thinking no not me I had a wonderful childhood and I can not remember any tramatic occurance that might have left some sort of scarred image of my self. This may very well be true and if it is great. Do you like the results your life has produced in the past? Has there ever been a habit of some sort that you wanted to change but for some reason couldnt get it done? The results in your life that you are currently experiencing are a direct result of how you see yourself.
  James Allen writes it best in a poem with a  line that says." Your environment is but a looking glass."   

My looking glass...
My father was a successfull image in the the city where we lived and at a very young age I started gaining weight, he was disappointed and embarrased and would bribe  me to lose weight. Make comments of his disaprooval to me about it.
My mother a loving woman who struggled with a performance minded husband who drank at night so she would shop and eat.  She did everything to please him even  shined his shoes I use to think WOW!  LOL

So these feelings were programed  into me.  Not worthy, shameful, guilt, unlovable, I just  wanted to run and hide, who would want me?etc.

Important to note here: Experiences connect theirselves to feelings and emotions. To prove this  think  of a past experience good or bad  you will start to feel that same feeling and emotion that you felt at that time it happened even though its in the past. Like magic through our thoughts  we can bring them to life.  So if we are living by an old program about ourselves when a situation presents itself to us now we out of habit recall up the old program and we will revert to a behavior as we did when we felt it before.  Do you see the pattern here? Its a cycle that will keep circling until we learn new awareness  and desire to be different to get different results. 

Example:  I struggled with relationships until I learned this information. Why? Long ago I took on the self image  I was unworthy of being respected, loved, accepted etc. and took on the attitude of I don't care and is  this as good as life is going to get. .
 
Then.....
A current situation would happen and the old program of familiar voices would bring up those past feelings and emotions because they were attached to those past experiences they would say remember me, and remember when you felt that before and  I am here to relieve your stress and  hurt so lets go eat ( note this can be any behavior) you say I shouldn't but I feel so bad I just need something to help me  so you give in.. Willpower will not work...  

So how do we change for the good we desire...

We have a mind that has a imagnation that can create. We have thoughts that can make anything feel real. We can make ourselves believe whatever we choose.  So we have to choose to make a NEW you! Trying to change the existing mold will make you nuts and think something is wrong with you. Stop beatng yourself up!

Now that you have new information ... Re create your self image by using the mind to create the good you desire for yourself for your body and your entire life. 

Continue to follow along the path of Release Your Weight and see if in the 90 days you don't see a change.

The Best to you always,
Cindy

Are you wondering where the PEACE is in these days!  Are the holidays of this and that have you feeling
like a rubber band. You know we can point to the holidays but if we are feeling pressured and pushed now
we most likely feel it the rest of our life too.  Holidays we feel is just a better reason to claim craziness!   

Lets chat how to get some peace coming forth to you.

1. Decide you want peace. Sounds funny doesn't it but when you have been on a treadmill so long you honestly
don't know or think you can  get off this cycle. You could be hooked into that go go gear and then go some more.... 

1a. Ask yourself do I really want PEACE in my mind, body and life.  First ...You make the decision of what you want for youself  and your life.

2. I hope you answered YES maybe even yelled YES!  Great! your on the right path lets go get you some peace.  

3. No Thank you is a complete sentence. You don't have to go everywhere for everybody just because they asked you.
Empower yourself with making choices that are good for you. 

4. Breath and relax.  Weariness drains and calmness renews.  Take 10 minutes yes you have 10 minutes in fact as soon
as you get done reading this sit back in your chair get comfortable and breath in stillness and out hurriness, breath in joy
and out confusion, breath in love and out annoying thoughts or people,  and say these things and things in this positive direction outloud or in your mind. Words matter the body is listening.

When I was going through a rough time the one sentence repeated repeated repeated again that helped me "everytime" was... I have peace in my mind and my heart, I have peace in my mind and my heart and I would repeat repeat until there was a shift in my mind and body. It worked EVERYTIME!!  Then I could continue on with a calm mind.  
The reason this works so well is that the  body is the instrument of the mind.  The body will follow what you say if you say it long enough.  To prove  it think of what you have been saying and realize that is also what the body is feeling and reacting to.

5. Visualize:  Visualize  Peace and what  it looks like to you. Then create a picture in your mind and attach the emotion of calmness  such as when you look at water or a campfire. You have then  successfully communicated to the body through the central nervous system with emotions and imagery and Peace you will begin to experience.

You have now successfully communicated to the body which you are doing anyway but now its with intention instead of letting the environment and surrounds control you. You have decided what you want and you went and got it because you deserve it!! Move forward with PEACE 

The Very Best To You Always,
Cindy

PRECEPTION: Christmas time pass the goodies right.  What is it that one is not enough or is it just me? I ponder this statement as I continue on my personal self development. WHAT is the Why one more cookie opposed to the WHY am I doing this to myself again win out! One is sufficent isn't it, well of course but thats not what my self image is telling me. 

It is saying OH go ahead one more cookie (s) you already have had so many its too late now to be disciplined, you have blown it once again  sorry, so don't fight it, just give in and feel stuffed! 

Am I writing to myself and if I am that is OK as writing creates thinking!  

OK, so this is exactly what I have done to myself today not stopping before the UGHH feeling sets in.  Its Christmas make more cookies, its cold outside and what is better than a good smelling kitchen to fill the house with aroma of baking goods in the air, right?! 

We/I have to become responible to ourselves  to take control make a decision because the WHY  for vibrant health is important to us and our loved ones.  So join me in getting it done. Take control of your thoughts, call the whistle  on the old program of whats the use its too late go ahead over eat !  Let's now talk  about how we are not going to lose the weight lets release the weight to relief the undue stress on the body by carrying it around.  Let us tell ourselves it is feeling so good now that I am drinking a bottle of water, I am readying inspirations, I am writing someone a Thank you note etc. 

I challenge you and myself  every morning and night and throughout the day to repeat and repeat and repeat... I am now happy and grateful that I am eating for my health to be my prefect size that fits into my clothes easily and comfortably.  

Shifting our thoughts and preception of how we are seeing ourselves is what will set us on the journey of health and happiness that we are desire.

Its never too late to start. Today is your day. I am also going to write it out and post it on my bathroom mirror.  

Another great inspiration is and you can personalize it as I have here .....
Cindy its your journey, how does it make you feel!  When we can attach an emotion to anything it will become us. So see yourself being in control of how you desire  to be!!!

The best to you always,
Cindy 

Powerful statement isn't it.... discover your real self and change your life!!  

 Our self image is the conception of the "sort of person I am" .  You hear people say I am not a morning person or I am a talker and so on, I will never get that accomplished and so on. They  are making a statement of their  internal beliefs about their selves.  Realize that most of these beliefs have been programed to us from past experiences, our success and failures, our triumphs, the way others see us and have reacted to us especially in early childhood.  From there we start to create a picture of ourselves and we accept it as the truth. We usually don't question it we just act upon it as it was true about ourselves. 

When you make some self image discoveries you may have very well found the "Golden Key" to living a better life.

1. Your results are a compass that shows where your self image is.   This being your actions, feelings, behavior, abilities will stay connected to your self image.  You will act , think, make choices, decisions that are in line with what you belief about yourself. 

This was a huge discovery for me and explained a lot of situations that were happening in my life and I couldn't figure out why they were happening as I knew I was smarter than what my results were giving me.  I did not realize I had an internal program that was directing my feeling, actions, behaviors regardless of what I consciously desired.  This program keep winning out "Everytime".  That was my self image program. 

I struggled in relationships going around the same mountain again and again and again. I could drop the weight but only to put it eventually back on and then some. Growing up in a family of 20 constant years major illnesses and always on the move to hospitals and  doctors even though when they are all passed I felt a void of that constant on the go motion.  I did not know how to have peace in the home. I found myself not choosing sickness but just looking for something not to be ok.  Are you seeing the picture and getting my patterns?

Another  big discovery I made was that you don't have to like something to live in it, you just need to be familiar with it.
If your completely unfamiliar with it chances are you won't go there.

Then the Lights Flashed, the bells went off when I realized I wasn't going crazy but that my self image that had been programed from early on had put me on a path of no matter how I tried I seemed to fall back into old thoughts, patterns of not being lovable, probably not worthy of the good I desired, not respecting myself so I would choose less than goodness for myself even though I didn't want to believe that... My  internal program was the power  force behind  my decisions. Even if I made a good choice  I could usually turn it eventual to prove to myself that, that  good really wasn't for me.  I was to lose again. UGHH!!

I daily work on re developing my self image.  I start my mornings with 10 things I am thankful for and "Why" , that is important to attach an emotion to your thankful statement. I see myself now as I want my life to be. I love myself.  I study daily with Bob Proctor coaching. I study books such as the Relationship Handbook, Psyscho-Cybernetics, Science of getting rich, Think and Grow Rich.  

If you want to change your life you have to do something you had not been doing before. 

You can too!  I am here to help you get started on your journey if you desire!  

Cindy

At the end of the day you will never out perform your self image!





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